Article XXV: Law Savings Clause
If any provision of this Agreement shall, at any time, be found invalid by operation of any court or board of competent jurisdiction, and from whose judgment no appeal has been taken within the time provided for so doing, or if compliance with or enforcement of any provision should be permanently restrained by any such court, then said provision shall become null and void, and the University and the Union, at the request of either party, shall enter into negotiations for the purpose of arriving at a mutually satisfactory replacement for such provision. In the event any provision of this Agreement becomes null and void in this manner, all other provisions of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
For the purposes of this provision, the word “board” shall not include the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan or any board established by them or their agents.
In the event an action is brought before a state court of competent jurisdiction regarding the offering or maintaining benefits for other qualified adults (comparable to those offered by the University) to employees of a state or other governmental institution, including but not limited to public colleges, universities or other public school systems, and said court determines that the plan in question violates the Michigan Constitution, specifically Article 1, § 25, either party may exercise the right to reopen negotiations under the Law Savings Clause of the Agreement.
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